V8s engine numbers?

[geeman237]

Can anyone tell me what the V8S TVR engine number format was?
Was it the same as the Griffith, ie 47A40PXXXG?

[v8s4me]

I'll happily stand corrected but my guess would be that the format will be the same across all Rover V8's in whatever application because the engine number was allocated by the manufacturer, ie British Leyland.

[phillpot]

From Rimmers website (same info in different formats on various sites), while not very comprehensive (no S or Griffith) it would suggest engines destined for TVR had their own number sequence, being a different compression ratio to engines for other applications?




My early pre-cat Griffith 400 is also a 47A40PXXXG number.

Edited by phillpot on Monday 23 April 09:36

[zombeh]

geeman237 said:

Can anyone tell me what the V8S TVR engine number format was?
Was it the same as the Griffith, ie 47A40PXXXG?

It's TVR so there are bound to be a few exceptions but mine is like that.

[v8s4me]

zombeh said:

geeman237 said:

Can anyone tell me what the V8S TVR engine number format was?
Was it the same as the Griffith, ie 47A40PXXXG?

It's TVR .... but mine is like that.

And mine.

[phillpot]

zombeh said:

It's TVR so there are bound to be a few exceptions but mine is like that.

You think they may have chucked some low compression Defender engines in if they ran short? ...

[geeman237]

Thanks for the info. Next question is did the V8 S spec engines differ from the 92 pre cat Griffith 4.0 engines, eg EPROM chip tune, camshaft, heads/valves?

[zombeh]

phillpot said:

You think they may have chucked some low compression Defender engines in if they ran short? ...

The people who used an imperial fitting in the middle of the rear brake pipe with a metric master cylinder and metric calipers on all the wheels? I think they could have put anything in if they had one left over from something else.

[geeman237]

I got an answer from Powers that the V8 S engine and Griffith 4.0 engine specs were the same. Case closed.

[SJS357]

And mine.

[mentall]

zombeh said:

The people who used an imperial fitting in the middle of the rear brake pipe with a metric master cylinder and metric calipers on all the wheels? I think they could have put anything in if they had one left over from something else.

Hmm: Makes me wonder if the 2.4 that was in mine was an original fitment after all!